The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has kicked off the teacher promotion interviews countrywide.
The Commission shortlisted a total of 64,619 teachers who had applied for the 21,313 advertised promotion slots.
The promotion covers teachers from job group C1 to D4 which also include the Curriculum Support Officers (CSOs).
The interviews have started with primary school teacher applicants and will run from 6th to 10th October 2025.
Interviews for post primary institutions (secondary and TTC), and Curriculum Support Officers (CSOs) will take ten days running from 13th to 24th October 2025.
The interviews have started with teachers in highest job group. For primary school teachers these are teachers seeking promotion to grade C4, C5 and D1.
However securing promotion slots will be a tall order for junior teachers as the promotion scoresheet favours only the aged.
The scoresheet shows teachers will be promoted largely based on age, year of service in current grade and whether one has acted as school administrator.
Teachers aged 52 to 56 years will score 25 marks, 47 to 51 years will get 20 marks while those aged below 41 years will score 10 marks.
The years a teacher has served in their current grade is also key in this years promotion.
Those who have served for at least seven years in same job group will be awarded 30 marks.
Six, five, four and three years will score 25, 20, 15 and 10 marks respectively according to the promotion scoresheet.
The Commission in a circular issued guidelines for the interviews that seek to fill 21,313 promotion vacancies.
The promotion slots are likely to go up next year after a recent pledge by President William Ruto who committed to increase the number of teacher promotions from the current 25,000 to 50,000 annually.
While speaking during a State House meeting with teachers, Ruto said his government will increase allocation for teacher promotions from sh 1 billion to sh 2 billion yearly.
TSC declared a total of 14,034 teacher promotions in December 2022, 36,275 in September 2023, 25,633 in 2024 and 21,313 in August 2025 bringing the total promotions to 97,255 since President Ruto’s tenure.
Below is a circular that was issued by TSC to guide the October teacher promotions for both primary and post primary institutions as well CSO’s.
TEACHERS SERVICE COMMISSION
Our Ref: TSC/ADM/192A/VOL.X/63
Date: 11th September 2025
CONDUCTING OF PROMOTIONAL INTERVIEWS FOR TEACHERS AND CURRICULUM SUPPORT OFFICERS (CSOs) IN 2025/2026 FINANCIAL YEAR
The Commission advertised 21,313 Teacher and Curriculum Support Officer promotional posts from Tuesday, 12th August to Monday, 25th August 2025.
Accordingly, applicants have been shortlisted and as a result, you are required to conduct the promotional interviews as outlined below.
The Circular should be read together with Promotional Guidelines for Teachers, Circular No. 8/2025 dated 11th August 2025, available on the Commissions website.
Therefore all stagnated teachers in the same job groups are going to get an upper hand in being promoted. Additionally, those aged will also carry the day.